HP EX900 500GB M.2. SSD review

This review covers the new HP EX900 series, this more affordable series EX900 500GB model is plenty fast with a rated sequential read speed up to 2100 MB/s and sequential write speed up to 1300MB/s. In our testing, often this SSD surpassed these speeds.

To be honest I don't even think that AS SSD or any other disk benchmark is capable of measuring the real speed of a RAM cache.

And no, it's not snake oil at all, everything is insanely fast, and the more I use the system the faster it gets, as the cache learns better which stuff to keep in memory.When using this, which SSD you use becomes completely irrelevant, could be just as well a basic SATA one. The capacity becomes more important, and to be honest I'm starting to find 500GB ssd a bit limiting in 2018, will probably get upgraded to a 2TB one sometime this year.

The downside is that RAM is quite expensive today. I was lucky to buy my 64GB when it was half the price of today, before the price boom.

To be honest I don't even think that AS SSD or any other disk benchmark is capable of measuring the real speed of a RAM cache.

And no, it's not snake oil at all, everything is insanely fast, and the more I use the system the faster it gets, as the cache learns better which stuff to keep in memory.When using this, which SSD you use becomes completely irrelevant, could be just as well a basic SATA one. The capacity becomes more important, and to be honest I'm starting to find 500GB ssd a bit limiting in 2018, will probably get upgraded to a 2TB one sometime this year.

The downside is that RAM is quite expensive today. I was lucky to buy my 64GB when it was half the price of today, before the price boom.

To be honest I don't even think that AS SSD or any other disk benchmark is capable of measuring the real speed of a RAM cache.

And no, it's not snake oil at all, everything is insanely fast, and the more I use the system the faster it gets, as the cache learns better which stuff to keep in memory.When using this, which SSD you use becomes completely irrelevant, could be just as well a basic SATA one. The capacity becomes more important, and to be honest I'm starting to find 500GB ssd a bit limiting in 2018, will probably get upgraded to a 2TB one sometime this year.

The downside is that RAM is quite expensive today. I was lucky to buy my 64GB when it was half the price of today, before the price boom.

Try to read a file for the first time

Then the cache is not working. Not for writing to the ssd either :p

Cache is "fun" to benchmark... windows caches to btw

Koniakki
Senior Member

Posts: 2837

Posted on: 04/13/2018 09:59 AM

Tell us noobs,what's wrong with it looks like performance is ok...

Nothing wrong in general, it's just some consider them inferior compared to a few other controllers in the market.

But just in case, one better make sure there's a warranty on the drive.. :p

coth
Senior Member

Posts: 406

Posted on: 04/13/2018 05:15 PM

Tell us noobs,what's wrong with it looks like performance is ok...

Silicon Motion offers less endurance in general, giving more stress on memory.